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Four million nuclear jobs by 2050: Who will do them?
Industry leaders from around the globe met this month to discuss the talent development that will be necessary for the long-term success of the nuclear industry.
The International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management and Human Resources Development, hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, was held in Vienna earlier this month. Discussed there was the agency’s forecast for nuclear capacity to more than double—or hopefully triple—by 2050 and the requirement of more than four million professionals to support the industry.
Calvin C. Oliver, Edward T. Dugan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 69 | Number 2 | May 1985 | Pages 161-169
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33627
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Thermodynamic and transport property predictions for UF6-He gas mixtures are presented covering the operating range of conceptual, circulating gas core nuclear systems. The gas mixtures of interest contain 10 to 20% helium by mass, which corresponds to helium mole fractions of 0.9 and higher. For UF6 partial pressure <10 atm and temperatures in the range of 500 to 2000 K, mixture density can be determined from the ideal gas equation of state with an uncertainty of <10%. Compared to pure UF6, the thermal conductivity of the mixtures is an order of magnitude greater; specific heat is doubled while viscosity is changed very little. For identical systems, it is shown that heat transfer rates for UF6-He mixtures are five to six times greater than for pure UF6.